An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Thirdly, What are those works which Elihu here calls the wonderful works of God? Surely those described both in th• foregoing and subsequent part of this Chapter are (which are no prodigies in Nature) the Winds, Rain, Frost, Snow, Thunder and Lightning: These are the matter of his discourse, and of these he saith Consider the wonderful works of God.

Thirdly, What are those works which Elihu here calls the wonderfull works of God? Surely those described both in th• foregoing and subsequent part of this Chapter are (which are no prodigies in Nature) the Winds, Rain, Frost, Snow, Thunder and Lightning: These are the matter of his discourse, and of these he saith Consider the wonderfull works of God.

Hence observe; The common, constant, and ordinary works of God, are full of wonders.

Though we rightly distinguish the works of God (as was touched before) into ordinary and extraordinary, common and wonderful, yet did we fully understand them, there is a kind of wonder and miraculousness in all the works of God, even in his most common, ordinary, or every days wo•ks. What is more ordinary and common than the generation and formation of man, Yet (saith David, Psal. 139.15.) I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. And the reason why we do not look out the wonders of that and of many other common works of God, is, because they are so common. The very falling of the Rain hath a wonder in it, the blowing of the Wind hath a wonder in it, the motion of the Clouds hath a wonder in it, the growing of every spire of grass out of the earth hath a wonder it it, the budding out of every leaf and blossom on the tree hath a wonder in it; yet because